Explain The Behavioural Approach

The behavioural approach views people and animals as controlled by their environment and specifically their behaviour as a result of what they have learned in the environment. They believe in scientific methodology - experiments and that they only observation behaviour. This should be studied because this can be objectively measured. Behaviourist perspective explains how behaviour is learned using a concept of association, reinforcement and punishment. For example, a boy is unable to go to school or the park because he has a overwhelming fear of dogs.
Classical Conditioning is a learning process by which a subject comes to respond in a specific way to a previously neutral stimulus after the subject repeatedly encounters the neutral stimulus